Sleeping is in my top three favourite things to do ever of all time ever. In fact, I’m going to go take a nap right now…
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Hiya!
Sleep Number (of Sleep Number beds fame) offered me a pillow for review. They have a new service that lets you customize your own pillow online: You choose a core, an outer layer, and a cover, and the parts are delivered to you to assemble at home.
There are a range of options within each component to choose from so you can tell Sleep Number what your preferences are for firmness, allergen control, contouring, and temperature.
I customized a pillow a month or so ago and I’ve been sleeping on it ever since.
What I Like
- The In Balance pillow covering I ordered keeps the pillow feeling cool at night.
- It has just enough give that, as a face-sleeper, I don’t wreck my neck at night, but it doesn’t compress so far that that my head sinks into it. I don’t like it when that happens.
- Customizing my own pillow was really easy, about four mouse-clicks easy.
What I Don’t Like
- Because the process is all online, there’s no way to tell what your pillow will actually feel like until it’s already home.
- The pillows are expensive, for pillows, and it’s hard to tell the difference between the $170 pillow I created and the $55 pillow I’d been using, sleep-comfort wise. Am I sleeping three times as well? I don’t even know how to judge that. The pricing issue is mitigated a little by some of the combinations you can put together. Not every pillow is going to cost $170, but the cheapest combination is still going to be about $80.
The bottom-line is, I’m happy I have this pillow now, but it would never have occurred to me to buy it for myself.
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For $170 that pillow better rock my ass to sleep AND sing me lullabies. Oh, and bring me chocolate and the tv remote, too.
It might vacuum. I haven't checked yet.
I have something similar by Serta and I can't believe how expensive they are, but admit there's no going back to Target pillows. It took a long time to "break in" though.
Steph
Yeah, I look at the $5 Ikea pillows we have scattered around the house now and…I just can't.
$170 dollars for a pillow? I'm with Avasmommy, it better do all that and make the bed when I get up in the morning too for that much.
You don't need the bed made when you have no reason to leave it.
I don’t find $170 to be unreasonable for a high end pillow. Mine was much cheaper though, I used the down alternative outer shell and a memory foam inner. I didn’t buy the pillow protector as part of the package since I already had one. AFAIK this is the only down/memory foam pillow on the market and it’s a pretty great combination. Was around $80 all in, for something I use 1/3rd of every day.